How Much The Stocks Kanye Gifted Kim Last Christmas Are Worth Now

Last December, according to Fortune, Kanye West gave his wife Kim Kardashian a rather fiscally-minded Christmas present: Hundreds of thousands of dollars in stocks.

Now, with the 2018 holiday season officially off to a start, one wonders how well Kanye’s stock choices for Kim have fared over the course of one year. These are the stocks Kanye West bought for Kim Kardashian last Christmas: Disney, Apple, Amazon, Adidas and Netflix.

Disney Stock 2017 to 2018

Since Nov. 28, 2017, Disney’s stock has risen steadily, with some faltering from February through June 2018. A year ago, Disney’s stock closed at $103.41 and now stands at $116.10 and change. That’s an 11.6% gain year-over-year, and sports a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.75 and dividend yield of 1.475%.

Apple Stock 2017 to 2018

On Nov. 28, 2017, Apple’s stock closed at $173.07, and as of today closed at $180.94. That’s a mere 4.5% gain year-over-year. The reason for this limited growth is due largely to the volatility and decline of tech sector stocks, Apple included. On Oct. 3, 2018, Apple’s stock peaked at a high of $232.07. Since then, Apple’s stock has nosedived, erasing almost all the gains made the year-to-date.

Amazon Stock 2017 to 2018

Like Apple, Amazon has been caught up in 2018’s general tech stock sell-off. That said, its stock price is still well up from last year at the same time. Amazon’s stock closed at $1,193.60 on Nov. 28, 2017, and after today's trading, closed at $1,677.75, for a year-over-year growth of nearly 41%.

Amazon’s stock performance year-over-year, however, glosses over the marked hemorrhaging it’s been experiencing since October. On Sept. 4, 2018, Amazon reached an intraday high of $2,050.50; and on Oct. 1, 2018, the stock closed at $2,004.36, before tumbling down to $1,495.46 when the market closed on Nov. 20, 2018.

Adidas Stock 2017 to 2018

If you’re unaware, Adidas is a German corporation, Adidas AG (German for aktiengesellschaft, a class of corporation limited by share ownership). Adidas trades on the Frankfurt stock exchange, the Börse Frankfurt, over-the-counter in the U.S, so you’re buying American depository receipt stocks.

Last year, Adidas’s stock price closed at $104.59 on Nov. 26, 2017. Over the course of 2018, the stock price has risen very gradually, reaching a closing price of $113.95 as of Nov. 28, 2018. Year-over-year, that’s a gain of just under 9%.

Netflix Stock 2017 to 2018

Netflix, falling under technology, internet services, has been harmed by the tech decline this year, but is still up year-over-year. Last year, on Nov. 28, 2017, Netflix’s stock closed at $199.18 per share. Today, the stock closed at $282.65, which equates to nearly 42% growth from 2017 to 2018.

Kim’s Netflex stock peaked in price in July 2018, closing at $418.97 on July 9. Then, in the second half of the month, Netflix’s stock dropped to $337.45 by July 31. October brought a fresh batch of troubles, recovering to a monthly high of $364.70 on Oct. 17, before declining to $284.84 by the 29th.

Stock

Price - Nov. 28, 2018

Price - Nov. 28, 2017

Change

Disney

$116.10

$103.41

12.3%

Apple

$180.94

$173.07

4.5%

Amazon

$1,677.75

$1,193.60

40.6%

Adidas

$113.95

$104.59

8.9%

Netflix

$282.65

$199.18

41.9%

So, what's the verdict on Kanye's Christmas gift from last holiday season? Since the amount of money Kanye invested is a vague, “hundreds of thousands of dollars,” we can’t tell exactly how much Kim has profited from a year of holding these stocks. And while some of Kanye’s picks have been impacted by the tech sector’s weak recent performance, overall Kim is still up. All five stocks have improved year-on-year, but whether Apple or Adidas will stay positive is harder to say.

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